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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Larry Kephart; Robert Weissbach

Session 2433 Hybrid Renewable Energy System Analysis for Off-Grid Great Lakes Residential Housing Robert S. Weissbach, Larry A. Kephart Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractRenewable energy has become an important area of research and development for bothenvironmental as well as economic reasons. At the academic level, it is possible to introducestudents to issues related to renewable energy. This paper discusses the effort two students putin, as part of a thesis, and an independent study, to develop an economically feasible, self-sufficient, renewable energy

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Stier

Engineers Education Foundation,Dearborn, MI. 3 McClenahen, J. S. (2003, June). Manufacturing’s global future: Waking up to a new world, IndustryWeek. 252(6), 22-26. 4 McClenahen, J. S. & Panchak, P. (2003, July). Manufacturing’s global future: Unruly trade, IndustryWeek. 252(7), 48-52, 61. 5 McClenahen, J. S. (2003). 6 Weinstein, B., Lewis, J. & Bergeron, L. K. (2003, August 27). Impacts of international trade with China onIllinois manufacturers, Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center, Peoria, IL, 1-15. 7 Campbell, R. M. & Campbell, H. (2002, November). Supply chain management at Motorola Corporation,National Association of Industrial Technology

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Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

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Brianno Coller

selling numerical methods textbooks are catalogs of techniques presentedgenerically (independent of any computational platform), followed by a bare-minimumseries of commands or computer code snippets that will implement the recipe justdescribed in a variety of different software packages or programming languages.Whether consciously or unconsciously, the text authors and course instructors aregrooming the students to be able to solve the types of problems one finds at the end of thechapter: small in scope, narrow in focus, again.The approach might be well suited for the 1960's and 1970's, when computing andprogramming became a core component of the undergraduate engineering curriculum,and when computing technology severely limited the size and

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State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Silliman; Leo McWilliams; Mark Gunty; Carrie Graf; Catherine Pieronek

population as a whole. As noted in McWilliams et al. [4], such analysescan lead to changes in course structure which dramatically impact both student learning andretention.References1. Brockman, J.B., Fuja, T.E, Batill, S.M., “A Multidisciplinary Course Sequence for First-Year EngineeringStudents,” 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2002.2. Pieronek, C. , McWilliams, L. H., Silliman, S. E., “Initial Observations on Student Retention and CourseSatisfaction Based on First-Year Engineering Student Survey and Interviews,” 2003 ASEE Annual Conference andExposition, Nashville, Tennessee, June 2003.3. Silliman, S. E., McWilliams, L. H., “Observations on Benefits/Limitations of an Audience Response System,”2004 ASEE

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Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Miguel A. Padilla; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

Cross-institutional Study,” Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education in the Southeast, Gainesville, FL, April 2002, Session 2793.[4] Zhang, G., Thorndyke, B., Carter, R., Ohland, M., and Anderson, T. (2003) “A Comparison of Demographic Factors and Academic Performances Between Students Graduated in Engineering and Other Disciplines.” Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education, Nashville, Tennessee, June 2003.[5] Besterfield, M., Mareno, M., Shuman, L. J., & Atman, C. J. (1999). “Comparing Entering Freshman Engineers: Institutional Differences in Student Attitudes,” American Society of Engineering Education Conference Proceedings, Charlotte, NC, June 1999.[6] Donaldson, T. S. (1968

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Amir Karimi; Dan Dimitriu

theeducation process with a variety of interesting projects to motivate students to continue the studyof engineering towards a Bachelor’s degree have begun to produce the expected results. Thedegree of satisfaction expressed by students enrolled in this course is at an all time high and theattrition rates among freshman engineering students are at an all time low.References1. Karimi, A., Eftekhar, J., and Manteufel, “A Model for Integration of Math, Science, and Engineering Application at the Lower Division," Proceedings of the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Gulf-Southwest Section of ASEE, March 7-9, 1999, Dallas, Texas.2. Karimi, A., Bench, S., and Hodges, Suzan, “Improving Engineering Student Retention in an Urban University,” Presented at

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Malur Srinivasan

bicycle frame was chosen as the principal designed product for several reasons.The primary reason is that the frame is a highly evolved mechanical structure [3] for whichnumerous materials are used depending on the service requirements. The other reasons includeeasy access to bicycles, familiarity with the features and the enormous public interest in the fieldas evident from the internet search engines [e.g. 4]. Investigation of the reasons for the choice ofthe material(s) in each case and the processes suitable for making the frame out of them wouldprovide an exciting opportunity for mechanical engineering students to learn how to link productfunctional requirements with materials and processes in a rational manner.The CES 4.5 (Cambridge

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Gender Equitable Curricula in High School Science and Engineering Stacy S. Klein1, 2, 3,4, Robert D. Sherwood, 4 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 2University School, Nashville, TN / 3Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 4Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TNAbstractAs part of a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) supplement to the VaNTH EngineeringResearch Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies (www.vanth.org), aninterdisciplinary group of secondary teachers and college faculty have

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Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joanne Lax; Amy Van Epps

record is considered a measure of success of REUsis external validation for the importance of communication skills for engineers. Nearly 50 yearsago, the founder of the IEEE Professional Communication Society called clear speech andwriting “…prime and necessary characteristics of the successful engineer.”7 More recently,ABET 2000’s Criterion 3 (g) stated that “Engineering programs must demonstrate that theirgraduates have:…an ability to communicate effectively.”8Unlike the wide-angle view of many of the papers on REUs, in which communications andlibrary activities often are mentioned in passing, this paper focuses in on how one relatively new

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Ollis

with a substantial technology advance, person, or company)Week two: Read entire book.Week three: Summarize the book in a single page (three paragraphs), which explain 1. What were the social and technical settings of the time ? 2. What was the particular technical challenge addressed, and why was it important ? 3. What was discovered/found, and how was it received by competitors, professionals (corporate management, etc), family, friends and society ?Week four: In nine-ten pages, respond to the following questions: 1. What technical challenge did s/he address

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Blanton

-year Associate Degree Electronic EngineeringTechnology (EET) or closely associated BMET programs. Some applicants have a militaryelectronics background. Only a handful of applicants come from the very few Bachelors Degreeprograms such as the program at East Tennessee State University. Why would someone enterthe Bachelors program in BMET when he or she could enter the BMET profession in half thetime and for significantly less costs? The answer is expanded professional and financialopportunities during his or her professional career.The Biomedical Engineering Occupation SpectrumThe success and future of academic programs in engineering technology are often related to theemployability of its graduates.1 The U. S. Department of Labor expects

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mohammed Fahmy; Recayi Pecen; Faruk Taban; Ayhan Zora

engine.The fuel energy is calculated as mass flow rate (kg/s) times the lower heating value of diesel fuel(J/kg). The lower heating value for the No. 2 diesel fuel used in the tests is 42,550,560 [J/kg].The fuel mass flow rate is obtained by running the WAVE Engine model. The WAVE enginemodel also provides a good estimate for the heat for Gas-to-Metal that represents the heatrejected through the radiator.Brake power is defined as the power obtained from the engine after all the losses and can be Page 10.24.6calculated as the torque delivered to drive train (Nm) times the angular velocity of the flywheel Proceedings of the 2005 American Society

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joanne DeGroat

architecture tracts. There are several important benefits of using a Hardware Description Languagefor design. The most obvious is the exploration of the design space. With a HDL,alternative design approaches can be explored. Another benefit is documentation of thedesign. A well written HDL model documents how the design was implemented. This isespecially important when the design is later synthesized. Synthesis of the IC circuit forthe design is yet another benefit, significantly reducing the time needed for the layout ofthe design. Another not so obvious benefit is that the design can be simulated in theenvironment in which it will later run. In the 1980’s getting first run silicon that workedwas considered success. In an article

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Schleicher; Aubrey Hunt; Sean Brophy; Christopher Garay; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Teaching X-ray Imaging in the High School Physics Classroom: Safe, Hands-On and Inexpensive Instruction Christopher D. Garay1, Aubrey A. Hunt1, Stephen M. Schleicher2, Sean P. Brophy1, Stacy S. Klein1, 3, 4, Cynthia B. Paschal1, 4, 5 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO / 3University School, Nashville, TN / 4Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 5Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, TN A new hands-on curriculum developed at

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joseph Musto; William Howard

of Engineering (MSOE), which includes: • A balance of MATLAB programming and spreadsheet usage. • An emphasis on selecting the appropriate tool for a specific task. • Instruction in the presentation of problem statements and results. • A focus on applications.BackgroundComputer programming has been a required skill in most engineering and engineeringtechnology programs for several decades. From the 1960’s through the 1980’s, some knowledgeof programming was necessary or at least preferred in order to perform computing tasks onmainframe computers. Until very recently, ABET requirements for engineering technologymandated the instruction of at least one computer language. Criterion I.C.6 of the 2003-2004conventional

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Weber; Nathan VanderHorn; Rashmi Bahuguna; Arun K. Somani; Mani Mina

backbone and highspeed measurement capabilities) is enhancing interaction between faculty, graduate andundergraduate students. Finally the paper will examine how HSSE has been successful inencouraging students from all undergraduate levels (freshman to senior) to participate in learningand experimenting in the State-of-the-art laboratory and are encouraged to be involved inresearch and graduate studies.The motivationCurrent fiber-optic technology will soon be augmented to allow transmission of data at 40 Gb/sover a single communication link. 40Gb/s is soon the state-of-the-art of the electronic systems2,3.Comparing this to several decades ago when a single link, early versions of a twisted copper pair,would transmit data in the rate of 100 kb/s

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Millard

dynamic and compelling media to re-engage and inspiretoday’s adolescents. General Electric (GE) had recognized the potential for capturing the interest “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”of K-12 students in the 1940’s and 1950’s through the creation and distribution of technologyoriented comic books (as depicted in figure 1 below). Figure 1 - Sample Pages from GE Comic Book #1Comic books have historically been banned in K-12 environments, viewed by the administrationas diversions that students would be reading during a teacher’s instruction. Now comic books areviewed as an

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Josef Rojter

recognition that professional engineering work discourses encompasshumanities has been mentioned as early as 1853. These ideas of engineeringprofession as productive pragmatists which uses the tools of technosciencethat is inclusive of humanities and social sciences has widely recognized. Inthe concluding comments of the Inquiry into engineering profession andeducation in Britain the need for the inclusion of greater humanities contentinto engineering curricula has been recognized if the engineering professionwas to be transformed from a technical profession into a social profession thatreflects the realities of engineering workplaces [15]. A major review intoengineering education in Australia in the late 1980’s identified human aspectsof

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Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Wm Evans

Programmable Logic Controller Teaching Method by Wm. Ted Evans Engineering Technology College of Engineering U of Toledo Toledo, OhioAbstract:Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC's) have been found in industry since the early1970's. The application of PLC's has long been considered a required course for majorsin Electrical Engineering Technology. Course content has traditionally centered onhardware with labs giving some programming experience. It is proposed that theeducation process for teaching PLCs should concentrate on programming from

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nirmal Khandan

correctly and efficiently.Preliminary validation data indicates that the approach is effective in assessing the problem-solving skills of these students.BIBILIOGRAPHY1. Maul G. P. and Gillard, J. S., “Teaching problem-solving skills”, Computers in Ind. Engrg., 31, 17-20, 1996.2. Taylor, P. A., Woodhouse, K. A., and Bouchard, C. G. K., Developing problem-solving skills: The McMaster problem-solving program, Jour. Engrg. Educ., vol 86, p 75-91, 1997.3. Woods, R. D., Hrymak, A. H., Marshall, R. R., Wood, P. E., Crowe, C. M., Hoffman, T. W., Wright, J. D., Taylor, P. A., Woodhouse, K. A., and Bouchard, C. G. K., Developing problem-solving skills: The McMaster problem-solving program, Jour. Engrg. Educ., vol 86, p 75-91, 1997.4. ABET 2000

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thanassis Rikakis; Jiping He; Hari Sundaram; Andreas Spanias

selecting the board members include (1) reputation in their expertise fields; (2)experience in interdisciplinary research and education; and/or (3) education/researchassessment. The board will meet once a year to visit AME program for annual evaluationin addition to communications through meetings, emails and phone conversations. Thetwo founding colleges and the university are supporting AME through dedicated facultylines, staff positions, facilities and seed research funds.References[1] G. Qian, F. Guo, T. Ingalls, L. Olson, J. James and T. Rikakis, "A Gesture-DrivenMultimodal Interactive Dance System," in Proceedings of the International Conferenceon Multimedia and Expo, Taibei, Taiwan, China, June 27-30, 2004[2] S. McAdams, Thinking in sound

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Morgan; Beverly Davis

intheir education that engineering is not for them. The number of earned degrees inengineering and computer sciences grew sharply in the early 1980s, peaked in 1986, andthen dropped precipitously before leveling off in the 1990s [2]. In addition, a 2001National Science Foundation/Division of Science Resources Statistics, Survey ofGraduate Students and Post-doctorates found that graduate student enrollment in thesciences and engineering fields have dropped significantly between 1994 and 2001.Clearly, engineering as a profession needs to promote itself on numerous levels. Oneavenue available is to seek to understand and promote engineering to the futuregenerations, or specifically the millennial generation (Born in the 1980’s-2000’s).The different

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Wills; Mihaly Lenart; Peter Tarjan

Respirator (2003-2004) – 3 membersFireman’s helmet with enhanced communication and protection – 5 membersOxygen saturation monitoring within a firefighter’s helmet with two-way communication and one-way data transmission of physiologic data – 5 membersSummary and ConclusionsSuccess stories: 4 Advanced E-Team Awards from NCIIA1 US Patent pending1 SBIR proposal received encouragement to resubmit1 special award from the Center for Aging at the UniversityStudents from electrical and mechanical engineering are beginning to join the BMEteams.An interdisciplinary doctoral student in Entrepreneurship (S. Wills), who holds an MBAhas joined the instructors as a volunteer.Participation in local and televised enterprise forums.Gathering external support for the

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sohail Anwar

enrolled in ELEC 495 (or NUC 495) are required to develop learning statementsthat objectively address the ITA learning objectives. A learning statement must includean explanation and example(s) of how a given learning objective has been met. Evidencemust be provided in support of every learning statement. The relationship between thegiven learning objective and the corresponding evidence must be explained. The essentialelements of good learning statements are as follows:• Written clearly and concisely in Standard Written English• Written in the form of a narrative• Supporting evidence is referenced and provided• Describe how the evidence supports the learning statement• Show how the learning statements

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Judith Collins; Alysia Starkey; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh

. (2002). Is information literacy relevant in the real world? Reference Services Review.30 (1), 7-14.4 Office of Economic Cooperation and Development. (1996). The knowledge-based economy. Retrieved 20 June 2004 from http://econ.snu.ac.kr/~kl/knowledge.html.5 Black, C., Crest, S., and Volland, M. 2001. Building a successful Information Literacy infrastructure onthe foundation of librarian-faculty collaboration. Research Strategies. 18 (3), 215-25.6 ABET Technology Accreditation Commission. 29 November 2004. 2005-2006 Criteria for accrediting Engineering Technology programs. Retrieved from http://www.abet.org 8 July, 2005.7 D’Angelo, B.J. and Maid, B.M. 2004. Moving beyond definitions: Implementing Information Literacy across

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ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Obregon; Kevin Hall

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Figure 8a – Insert the desired image. The image may need Figure 8b – Create desired layers and their content. As to be reduced in size. layers are generated, they have the option of being visible or hidden. In the Layer panel, the eye column indicates whether a layer is hidden or visible. For this exercise, all layers will be hidden after generation. Figure 8c – Create the hotspot area(s) that the user can

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Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gul Okudan Kremer; Madara Ogot

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NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

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Harvey Abramowitz

test specimen until failure.Note to Instructors: While such equipment when new can cost well over $1000, all the equipmentdescribed here was purchased at auction for $22.Statistics for Analyzing DataMeanThe mean, x , is simply the average of a sample from a population. It is defined as i =n xi x= i =1 Eq. 1 nWhen n goes to infinity, the symbol µ is commonly used. Thus the total population is consideredand s is also called the ‘population mean.’ Page

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Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Krumholz; Robert Martello; Jonathan Stolk

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Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Jung; Anthony de Sam Lazaro; Amanie Abdelmessih

Senior Design Progress Report to Page 10.184.13 ASHRAE, Al-Khamis, M., Al-Rasheedi, M., Doughty, C., Dye, D., Heitzmann, E., Holtcamp, G., Malallah, H., Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005. American Society for Engineering Education Miller, S., Perkins, T., Thabet, J.; Advisor: Dr. A. N. Abdelmessih, Saint Martin’s School of Engineering, Lacey, WA, December 2000.(8) “Instrumented Air Conditioning Bench Experiment,” Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Final Report to ASHRAE, Al-Khamis, M., Al-Rasheedi, M